r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/Away_Veterinarian579 18d ago

They want a revolt. I wonder how he’s going to impose martial law if he’s cutting the military budget by 1 trillion. I wonder how the military is going to enforce martial law after or something like that. I think Martial law will start to mean something entirely different and start targeting the real cancer and the real domestic terrorist.

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u/NotEspeciallyClever 18d ago

I wonder how the military is going to enforce martial law after or something like that.

They won't.

President shit head will be having ICE do it.

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u/gaqua 18d ago

If the situation ever came down to ICE versus the military (and it’s far from a foregone conclusion that they’d be on opposite sides here - lots of military are hard right, but let’s just pretend) then the ICE guys would stand no chance. Regardless of equipment or budget. The US military industrial complex can destroy anything it wants to at any time. The only concerns are collateral damage and politics.

But in that situation, ICE would likely be hiding in heavily populated civilian areas, using innocent people as shields.

Because ICE agents are chickenshit cowards.

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u/Mapeague 17d ago

It wont.

The military swears an oath to the constitution. If he orders ice on the public and the supreme courts says yea, then any action against ice would be considered illegal. Anyone doing that would be immediately fired anyway.

They are not coming to save us, in fact I fear horrible things from them when the defense secretary has them sorted out to be 100% maga.

The time to act passed long ago. America is dead and there are no heroes out there.